Vanity Fair (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780141199542)

William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale of class, society, and corruption, soon to be an Amazon mini-series starring Olivia Cooke

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles--military and domestic--are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design In William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN-10: 0141199547
ISBN-13: 9780141199542
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2013
Pages: 912
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 2.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 12.4
Point Value: 66
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 722 / Vanity Fair


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 03/31/2014 pg. 55